Screencasting CPD August 2017 DESC. G Anderson.

1. Welcome to my workshop where we will think about how screencasting
will help us to better teach hard to learn topics
Last Lesson Questions (I use this… 6 questions)
Q1 – What would have given you a better
experience at school (in terms of learning!).
Deeper Questions
Q4 – What does metacognition mean to you? To
what extent does learning to learn actually work?
29 August, 2017

2. Monday P1 Year 8 29 August, 2017
To be able to begin to compose a
screencast so that we can better
teach hard to teach topics

3. What do we need to think about?
1) Consider some thoughts about screencasting in
the context of technology and (vs?) education
(COBIS CPD).
2) See how to physically create a screencast.
3) Commit to trying out one form of screencasting
in the classroom.

4. You can begin now if you wish…
If you want, feel free to begin to prepare
to make a screencast in about 10-15
minutes.
However, let me frame the session for 10
minutes!

5. Exemplars would have made life better…
You work hard,
yet you don’t
really
understand…
Did you have
exemplars? Good
ones? Multiple
versions?
Vertical vs Horizontal Subjects…
Unsettled worldview of Students

6. Definition of Screencasting
At its heart, it’s the sharing of materials with
students both inside and outside the classroom.
York University – Defined Podcasting
As any kind of interactive media…

7. The Visuals are Important (Joe Roberts)
Can create novelty for effect – not
over emphasised
Not just the
same
Metaphor enhances

8. Can create novelty
for effect – not
over emphasised
Not just the
same
At its heart it is the sharing of verbal and
physical representations of meaning

9. Why do we need teachers if we screencast?

10. Timeline of Teachers Becoming Defunct?
WIRELESS
The end of teaching has been predicted for a fair
amount of time.
TV
INTERNET
MOOC

11. BigTech likes the idea of ‘guide on the side’
Google and Microsoft
love the idea of
education that
doesn’t need
teachers. At all.
So what are teachers needed for?
To motivate (AF), offer an internal map, a human
connection. Be efficient.
Evidence-based
teaching?

12. What is screencasting/YouTube culture?
Who is this?

13. Surprisingly influential…
idealised medium
Not just
youth
culture….
For some
students it is
their
connection to
wider society.

14. Why make videos if others exist?
Mr Bruff… 10m
views… 10k+
Amazon Sales…
Multiple versions
are useful, yes, and
they exist too.

15. Why make videos if others exist?
Metacognition... exemplar... creating exam
answers in real time...

16. ‘I have no idea what metacognition means’.
No-one really does, but, equally, everyone does.

17. What is metacognition?
a) Thinking
verbally about
your learning
b) Strategies for learning
c) Sensing the
right time to
use those
strategies
AFL paperwork

18. Research Advice on Metacognition
Subject-specific
Requires the ability to sense WHEN to use strategies
rather than just knowing WHAT the strategies are…
Specific skills/concepts
vs generalised
approaches
Requires foundation of
knowledge rather than
jump to higher-skills
Sublingual

19. So let’s make

20. So let’s make
Either:
1) Talk through an exemplar answer already
created or received.
2) Mark a piece of work from scratch.
3) Model a particular concept.
4) Make an exam answer in real time.
5) Use EdPuzzle to make a quiz based upon a
previous screencast.

21. Advice…
Either:
1) Find a (good) exemplar of work that a student
has sent you previously. Use Screencastomatic
to mark a response.
2) Take a PowerPoint that you will use in your
first week back. Record audio over it.
Extension
Create an EdPuzzle from materials made already.

22. We will work on this for about 15-25
minutes.
We will work through the method of
screencasting via either PowerPoint or
Screencastomatic. I will model both. Videos
available on www.thequillguy.com if desired…
I will stop us when the timer finishes, so be ready
to be interrupted!

23. Time to consolidate and consider…

24. Application 1:
Marking Work or Talking through Exemplar
Many apps
have been
used already…
Issue of
Workflow

25. Application 1:
Marking Work or Talking through Exemplar
Can use Screencastomatic. Open the file, mark it directly
on your screen. Save and upload to Screencastomatic.
Can use OneNote. Open up where it is on the screen, add
an audio file…

26. Application 2: Exam answer in real time
Students to copy
at the right time.
Use a timer. Pause
at the right points.
Focus on Metacognition…
Use Screencastomatic and
word/OneNote/visualiser.

27. Remember – build the sense of WHEN to
use subject specific strategies…
metacognition?
Requires the ability to sense WHEN to use
strategies rather than just knowing WHAT the
strategies are…

28. I think the best use of screencasting is when we contrive
situations in which students might choose specific strategies.
This is both
professionally
functional for
exams…
And intellectually
ambitious for us to
demonstrate
challenge and
liminality

29. Commitment
Useful?
Commit to producing ONE video of 30 seconds to
5 minutes(+) based upon ONE concept for your
subject. Share with someone next to you.
I can help you… come to you, help produce etc.